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Sedat Laçiner O sesi ilk duyduğumda avluda tavaf ediyordum... Adi suçlular volta atar, biz tavaf ediyoruz, yani en fazla 25 metrekarelik avluyu köşelerinden dönüyoruz… Elimde gazete, yürürken bir yandan da gazeteyi okuyorum... Herkesin yapabileceği bir şey değil bu: En fazla 4 metre hızlı adımlarla yürü, sonrasağa dön, bir 3 metre daha yürü, sonra yine sağa dön… Her bir dönüş 10 saniye bile sürmez. Haliyle başı dönüyor insanların. Bir de bunu yaparken birşeyler okumak, sadece bana özgü... Dediğim gibi, elimde katlanmış gazete, hızlı adımlarla avluda dönüp duruyordum. Üst kat pencerelerinden biri açıktı, avlu kapısı da arada bir açılıp kapanıyordu… O sesi hayatımda ilk kez o gün duydum…. Üst kattan, yatakhaneden geliyordu. Birini kesiyorlardı sanki. Hırıltı desem hırıltı değil, bağırma desem bağırma değil... Korku filmi gibiydi. Acaip bir şeyler olduğu kesin… Yürüyüşümü bozmak istemedim, ama ben döndükçe yukarıdan bağırış çağırış sesleri arttı. Alt kattan birkaç kişi de yukarı koştu. El...
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Turkish academic star jailed for almost a decade

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UK-educated political scientist Sedat Laçiner was sentenced after spending 26 months in pretrial custody October 4, 2018 Jack Grove For more please visit:  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/turkish-academic-star-jailed-almost-decade
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Nine years in prison - Times Higher Education

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A former rising star of   Turkish   academia has been sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison over what the government claims are his links to a terrorist organisation. In 2011, Sedat   Laçiner   became Turkey's youngest university rector when he was appointed head of Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, in the Dardanelles region, at the age of 39. However, Professor   Laçiner   was arrested in July 2016 shortly after an attempted coup and has since been held in detention over his alleged ties to the banned Gülen movement. He was sentenced to nine years and four months in prison after more than two years in pretrial custody, according to the Turkey Purge website. World in brief - 11 October 2018 Times Higher Education ; London  Iss. 2378,   (Oct 11, 2018). https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/turkish-academic-star-jailed-almost-decade
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Sedat Laçiner has been designated a Young Global Leader in 2006

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* Representing Turkey Dr. Sedat Laçiner joins 175 leading executives, public figures and intellectuals under the age of 40 from 50 countries who have been selected to collectively shape the future. * Laçiner is the first Turkish who named YGL in the intellectuals category. Geneva, Switzerland 9 January 2006 - The Forum of Young Global Leaders, an affiliate of the World Economic Forum, proudly announces today that Assist. Prof. Dr. Sedat Laçiner, founding president of Ankara based Turkish think tank the International Strategic Research Organisation (USAK), has been named a Young Global Leader 2006. Laçiner is one of 44 Europeans chosen to become Young Global Leaders in 2006 and will join a global community now including 410 leaders from all regions and stakeholder groups. Dr. Laçiner has been selected YGL in the category of intellectuals. Drawn from a pool of 8,000 candidates from around the world, the Young Global Leaders nominated in 2005 have been selected by a nomination commit...
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Turkey Earthquake: What We Learned, What Should We Do?

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By Sedat LAÇİNER, PhD It is not the first time that Turkey has faced an earthquake disaster...  Earthquake, like rain, like snow; a fact of Turkish lands... one of the most common events we encounter in our daily lives... Almost all of our lands are on fault lines and tens of thousands of earthquakes are recorded every year in our country... An earthquake of magnitude 4 and above happens almost every day... According to earthquake records, there have been at least 23 earthquakes with a magnitude of 7 and above in our lands since the 1500s. In other words, there have been approximately 5 major earthquakes every 100 years, which causes a major earthquake on average every 20 years. Moreover, some of them are earthquakes that cause great loss of life. For example, in the Great Erzincan Earthquake of 27 December 1939, 33,000 people lost their lives, 100,000 were injured… More than 116,000 houses were destroyed in this earthquake… The earthquake was 7.9 and it was definitely a big ea...
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Russia's Depopulation Problem: Causes and Results

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RUSSIA'S DEPOPULATION PROBLEM Causes and Results. Is Russia Dying? December 2022 By Sedat LAÇİNER (PhD) The slowdown in population growth is the general problem of the modern and developed world. The comforts of modern life and certain features of the 'new society' are driving fertility rates down rapidly. In the 2000s, populations in many OECD countries either stagnated or regressed. Decline of population growth can cause many vital problems in the economy, politics and social relations. Chief among these problems is the difficulties in financing the aging population. The decrease in the proportion of the young population in the total population also negatively affects business life, negatively affecting productivity and creativity in the labor market. Just as the aging of a person causes negativities, the aging of a society brings similar problems: Aging nations begin to lose their vital functions, and they lose their flexibility and productivity in many areas from ec...
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